Kadarashe area, under the ITER fusion reactor headquarters building.

Just after the meeting, Chen Mingji, who walked out of the building, glanced back at the headquarters building, which was not very high, and the expression on his face was a little complicated.

Two or three hours ago, an ITER Board meeting was held here.

The ITER Council is the highest decision-making body with the International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program (IPEP) and is composed of representatives from each of the seven member states.

Similar to CERN, there are actually two types of representation on the ITER Council, one is technical and the other is political.

The results of today's meeting were not very encouraging.

As a representative to ITER and the director of our International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program Implementation Center, he should have been the main force in the past.

But in today's meeting, he barely spoke.

Of course, today's meeting is not really a technical thing

It's just that at today's meeting, the tough attitude of some people made him feel a little worried in his heart.

Turning around, Chen Mingji glanced at the representatives around him, and asked with some tentativeness: "Director Xu, what do you mean by this rice country?" ”

Hearing the inquiry, Xu Mozhi, who was walking beside him, turned his head and glanced at Chen Mingji.

Although there are some contradictions between this academician Chen and that academician Xu, he is also an academician after all, and he is also a leader in the field of controlled nuclear fusion in China, dedicating his life to the country.

Smiling, he said: "It's nothing more than the technology in the hands of Academician Xu, our Daybreak Fusion Device has achieved a new brilliance with a forty-five minute running time, and is at the forefront of the world, they want to use ITER to coerce us into handing over these technologies." ”

Hearing this, Chen Mingji then asked, "Then what should we do?" ”

Hand over the technology? Even he knew it was impossible.

He has a conflict with Xu Chuan, but that is also his own business behind closed doors, and he can solve it internally.

Externally, no matter how you say it, it is a country, a family.

It is impossible to go out public, unless technology is exchanged for technology.

Xu Mozhi said with a smile: "You don't have to do anything for the time being, just drag on time." ”

After a pause, he glanced at Chen Mingji, and then said: "It is impossible for us to let go of our mouths on technical issues, whether it is high-temperature superconducting materials or plasma turbulence numerical control models, they are the private property of Academician Xu. Unless Academician Xu himself is willing, it is impossible for the state to do and will not do anything to exchange technology, let alone make it public for free. ”

In this sentence, he not only indicated the position of the high-level, but also indirectly reminded the academician in front of him not to think about some other things.

After all, high-temperature superconducting materials and numerical control models are quite important for controlled nuclear fusion, and if they are really traded, they can definitely be exchanged for a lot of good things.

The EAST project in Luyang is linked to the ITER nationality cooperation project, and if the technology is changed through ITER, Luyang will definitely be able to receive some of the benefits.

This meeting, almost the entire process of the negotiation was carried out by those of them who are engaged in diplomacy, and they are also concerned about this aspect.

Chen Mingji nodded, was silent for a while and did not speak again.

To be honest, none of these things have anything to do with him.

He fears that Western countries may take advantage of this to kick them out of ITER.

Although the other party doesn't mean this now, I don't know later.

Annoyed and angry, those people led by Mi Guo did not do such a thing.

Even, some of the original agreements, or those transactions that are in progress, may be truncated.

Controlled nuclear fusion is a big pie that can fill everyone's stomach, even if you can't eat it now, but seeing hope is enough for everyone to be excited.

To be honest, Chen Mingji really didn't want to come to this point.

Don't look at the domestic controllable nuclear fusion is at the forefront of the world, but if you put aside the results of the Daybreak device, even including Daybreak, it is actually following the trajectory that has been taken.

Even the fusion device was actually bought and traded back from other countries.

Luyang's EAST is a modified HT-7 bought from Soviet Russia, the Daybreak fusion device is a modified ASDEX bought from Germania, and the HL-2M and HL-2A from the Southwest Nuclear Industry are actually bought.

It seems brilliant, but in fact, the time for the research of controllable nuclear fusion is too short, and the controllable nuclear fusion experimental reactor built entirely by itself is not currently available in Huaguo.

Don't look at the experience that EAST has accumulated, and even that Daybreak has managed to run for forty-five minutes, setting a new record.

However, in a large-scale scientific research project involving many disciplines such as controlled fusion, how to conduct follow-up research and what to do next is far more critical and important than what has been done.

And in this regard, both Europe and the United States have actually gone further than them.

At this point in time, disconnecting communication with them is actually not a good thing in his opinion.

It's just that the decision has been made above, and he can't change anything.

The skill is not as good as people, 450 seconds of operation and 45 minutes of operation, which is more important, at a glance.

Let's just hope this bad thing doesn't happen.

Sighing in his heart, Chen Mingji sank some thoughts and suggestions into his heart.

Because of the previous incident, he and that Academician Xu were already very stiff, and if he put forward some more ideas, I am afraid that there will really be no room for relaxation at all.

On the other side, Jinling and Xu Chuan are not very clear about what happened on ITER's side for the time being.

During this time, he didn't go to the Qixia Controlled Nuclear Fusion Engineering Base much, and basically perfected some theories at home about the magnetic surface tearing and plasma magnetic islands that will occur during the deuterium-tritium fusion process of the tokamak device.

Of course, it is only some ideas and theories that are perfect, and it is necessary to wait for the dawn fusion device to actually start the deuterium-tritium fusion ignition operation, and then analyze and process it according to the experimental data.

But to be honest, what Chen Mingji thinks is indeed theoretically fine.

Huaguo started too late in the field of controlled nuclear fusion, and although it has now come to the forefront, it is still in a catch-up position.

But that's for others, and for him, when it comes to the future development trend of controlled nuclear fusion and how to conduct subsequent research, I'm afraid the whole world combined can't match him alone.

No matter how talented a researcher is, no matter how awesome a team is, it is impossible to predict how controlled nuclear fusion will develop in more than ten years, and those routes and research methods are wrong.

But Xu Chuan could, he came back with a time difference.

In this future time, how controlled nuclear fusion will develop, where there are problems, which route will be feasible in the future, and which route will not be feasible, if not all, at least most of it is clear to him.

Therefore, from his point of view, even if Huaguo is separated from ITER, there is actually no big problem.

After all, from the very beginning, the Qixia Mountain nuclear fusion project was a completely independent project, and it has never relied on ITER's technology.

Of course, Chen Mingji can't know these things, so from his point of view, there is actually nothing wrong.

It can only be said that no one would have thought that a reborn person would appear in this realm.

As time passed, the days gradually came to the beginning of December.

After returning to the Qixia Mountain base from the villa, Xu Chuan was also busy, the transformation of the dawn fusion device was nearing completion, and the optimization of the plasma turbulence numerical control model had already been completed with the support of the Academy of Sciences.

The second restart of the Daybreak Fusion Facility is just around the corner, and he needs to preside over the overall situation.

Finally, a week later, the Daybreak fusion device was completely transformed.

The rest is the corresponding check.

It's easy to say, but it takes more time than ever to complete the inspection of all the equipment, especially when the deuterium-tritium raw material fusion ignition operation process is additionally added this time.

After all, the fusion ignition of deuterium-tritium raw materials is not a joke, and if you don't pay attention to it, it is a major safety accident.

Moreover, when the deuterium-tritium raw material is really fused, neutron irradiation will be generated, although it is impossible to inject a large amount of raw material into the first run experiment, a milligram of the sky, but the energy released by fusion is far greater than that of nuclear fission.

Although the Daybreak Fusion Device and the project base have been fully prepared, it is the first time that such an experiment has been started, and no one can guarantee whether the process will go smoothly and whether the results will meet expectations.

After five days, the engineers and researchers at the Daybreak Fusion finally completed the relevant equipment inspections.

Standing in the general control room, Xu Chuan's eyes fell on the behemoth in the core test area through the monitoring screen.

In this experiment, there are two goals in total.

The first goal is to advance the high-density plasma runtime simulated by helium-3 and hydrogen to at least 100 minutes.

The second goal is to run at least one deuterium-tritium feedstock fusion ignition experiment.

The former is to continue to complete the operation time control experiment, and the latter is to collect experimental data to solve the problems of magnetic plane tearing and plasma magnetic islands generated during the deuterium-tritium fusion process.

As for the problem of the destruction of the first wall material by neutron irradiation generated by the deuterium-tritium raw material during the fusion process, although it is also in the experimental data collection this time, the priority of solving this problem is not in this experiment.

After all, if you can't even run plasma for a long time, it doesn't make much sense to solve the problem of neutron irradiation in the fusion process.

With the completion of the preparations, at half past nine in the morning, Xu Chuan gave the order to start the experiment.

At the same time, under the control of a large number of staff, the dawn fusion device sleeping in the core experimental area once again roared.

PS: There is another chapter in the evening, asking for a monthly pass.

In the previous chapter, there was a bit of a mistake in the calculation of time, my brain was a little pumped, the end of October is December, and I ignored December in its entirety (QAQ), sorry.